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Teuben, Pauline (author)This project is part of the Complex Projects graduation studio, which investigates urban challenges as a result of political, economic, and environmental change. In this project especially environmental change is being considered, but also political and economic changes are intrinsically linked to this environmental change. With the current...master thesis 2020
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van Dijk, Bjorn (author)As big player architecture has been the main shaper of the NYC skyline this thesis sought to find the answer to which industry would follow to built the next addition. The result is a vertical tech campus where the new york office is mixed with the california campus to create a flagship store/office for the fictional client Google inc.master thesis 2020
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Ringoir, Vincent (author)Public space in Manhattan is mainly generated through a mechanism called Privately Owned Public Spaces, shortly POPS, allowing developers to construct taller buildings in exchange for the provision of public space. As a result of this incentivizing mechanism there are countless manifestations of public private contradiction in the city of New...master thesis 2020
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Hoekstra, Erik (author)In the coming decades, cities will have to house a lot more residents. For now, this unavoidable change is yet unimaginable. However, cities do have to prepare for challenges to come. Cities face the task to offer more housing in an already set framework of the existing context. How can a provision of housing be made in a dense urban context...master thesis 2020
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Luo, Xiaodong (author)"Air Rights" in New York gives freedom for the super tall towers, while cages low rise buildings which sold their unbuilt. This graduation thesis investigates the future possibilities for the lots which sold their air rights. By exploring underground space, this project solves urgency of limited buildable spaces, and tests how to make...master thesis 2020
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Hoek, Tibo (author)Offices located in Midtown Manhattan are on the move towards new developments on the river banks, leaving their old residencies behind. Because of this phenomenon Midtown is experiencing high vacancy rates in its obsolete building envelope. This transition can be seen as a threat or an opportunity for Midtown’s future. It happened before and...master thesis 2020
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Bok, Sebastian (author)Over time physical intersections such as mobility hubs have grown to places with high densities of users. The same accounts for digital intersections such as social media platforms which also have grown to places with high amounts of users. Both make use of density as a focal point for public activity. Physical mobility hubs for example offer...master thesis 2019
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Domian, Aleksandra (author)The design assignment is a response for a need of a public physical space that can inhabit 22nd century community. “The Playhouse” is a new type of community centre where people can spend their free time, interact with each other, develop their hobbies, stimulate their creativity, and seek out new goals and experiences.The question of the role...master thesis 2019
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Huizenga, Nick (author)From the birth of consumerism in the early 18th century shopping as a leisure activity has been an integral part of our everyday lives. Its physical manifestations have a great resonance within our cities and the built environment. Throughout history retail typologies have constantly been adapted and reinvented around major shifts within our...master thesis 2019
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Sołtysiak, Katarzyna (author)Nowadays, a majority of goods is produced in a significant distance to a consumption market; spaces of production and consumption have become extremely disconnected. For this reason, consumers are not aware of labour and pollution that desired goods create. Large amounts of waste are disposed daily, in particular in well developed countries. But...master thesis 2019
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van der Meulen, Sietske (author)Digitalization and automation brings many amazing things; games, social media, navigation. However, it also makes us more vulnerable. The facelessness of cyber space and the emancipation of place makes it hard to grasp. Additionally, our personal data becomes more valuable and thereby more lucrative to criminalize. The combination of these...master thesis 2019
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ZHUANG, Mingru (author)The focus of the AMS graduation studio is to create future scenarios of the city Amsterdam by considering the city as a experimental ground for 2050. The site of our group is located between Schiphol airport and Zuidas district, functioning as the corridor and connection between the airport with the city center. On the other hand, due to the...master thesis 2018
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Zawadzka, Brygida (author)The Pleasure Mall stands for a new type of entertainment condenser, community center or “shopping” mall of the future. As a base, it takes the concept of a suburban shopping mall and transforms it according to a happening shift from materialism and consumer culture to experience economy. Hence, the Pleasure Mall does not sell the products...master thesis 2018
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Ren, Peiwen (author)Water has played a vital role in Dutch life. Nearly one-third of the country lies below mean sea level and more than half of territory would be submerged if the delta worksdon’t exist.The mainland also contains abundant resource of water: 17% of territory is water area. You may thinkthe watershortage is a joke for a country like Netherlands....master thesis 2018
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Daynovich, Yana (author)The aim of the thesis is to research how the workspace typology could change in distant future of 2050 in Amsterdam under the influence of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented reality. Such aspects as influence of technologies on company structures, space organization and program of a building are deeply investigated. The design...master thesis 2018
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van Arkel, Sebastiaan (author)Amsterdam has become a city predominantly focused on consumers. Makers and user are drifting away from each other, which results in environmental pressure, mental disconnection from the production process and loss of the potentialities provided by the urban environment. Recent trends allow for restoring the relationship between the production...master thesis 2018
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Patelli, Nicola (author)The thesis explores the paradigms that inform the design of the New Headquarters for the Cuban Pharmaceutical Industry.master thesis 2017
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van Zalingen, Jelmer (author)The almost sixty year Castro regime has driven the island of Cuba into isolation. Infrastructure on the island fully relies on the nation own capacity and since the special period like everything else this is in an overall state of decline. The ongoing neglected state of Cuba's infrastructure, together with a continuous scarcity of resources and...master thesis 2017
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- Gil Villate Matiz, Henrique (author) master thesis 2017